Today in Salon: The Specter of a shrinking GOP

Today in Salon: Wednesday April 29, 2009

The Specter of a shrinking GOP Arlen Specter's defection likely means a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate majority. Choose your metaphor -- rats, ships, small tents -- but will the last Republican to leave please turn out the light? By Mike Madden

Open Salon How a mother's brain deals with swine flu Classic Freaky Sexy Equal Pay and Me Nightmare Scenario: Chairman Specter (D-Penn.)

Joan Walsh Specter's "Happy 100 days!" gift to Obama

Why can't we concentrate? Twitter and e-mail aren't making us stupider, but they are making us more distracted. A new book explains why learning to focus is the key to living better. By Laura Miller

Obama's 100-day report card Experts grade the president on the economy and foreign policy, environment and civil rights. Featuring Russ Feingold, Dan Savage, Michael Pollan, Gloria Feldt and many others. By Vincent Rossmeier, Mark Schone and Gabriel Winant

Beyond the Multiplex Tribeca: From fake suburbia to Vegas, with devil worship

Obama and race: Silence is golden The president has dramatically improved race relations -- by not talking about race. By Gary Kamiya

Let war crimes be bygones We don't need to round up a few Bush-era criminals to settle political scores. We just need some truth, and then we need good train service. By Garrison Keillor

How the World Works FDR's stimulus was too small, too A Chicago schooler contemplates the failure of capitalism Does corporate hog farming breed swine flu? News shocker: Citigroup, Bank of America could need more cash

I got caught stealing money from work I was fired and I'm making restitution, but I'm dying of shame. By Cary Tennis

The K Chronicles Did you hear about that Michael Jackson auction that got called off? By Keith Knight

Video Dog 100 days of Barack Obama

GigaOM Network A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot Like Static GKrellM Lets You Customize System Monitoring Tasks Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles Stealthily Invades the iPhone Maybe an Android Netbook Isn't a Good Idea After All Apple Gets Legal Push-back Over Takedown Reques MilestonePlanner, an Online Planning Board The Jimmy Fallon Goliath, Toppled by Bobby Miller? Forrester Backs Private Clouds — Will Others Follow Suit? Photo Editing Options When iPhoto Isn't Enough Why We Don't Believe Rumors of an Apple/Verizon Love Child Second Take: Amazon HD VOD Not Ready for Prime Time? Verizon Buzz Sparks Rumors of Two New Apple Products Think You Can Work for a Tech Company? Take this Quiz UPDATE: UMID M1 Unboxed- Pricey and Too Small What's In Your Bag, Celine Roque? Jailbreak: The Lock Screen is a Barren Land (Part One)

War Room Steele compares Specter to Benedict Arnold Norm Coleman is never, ever gonna quit Senate confirms Sebelius to lead HHS Quote of the day Limbaugh to Specter: Take McCain with you Steele: Specter "flip[ped] the bird" to GOP leadership Specter calls for "rebellion" against conservatives in GOP Casey avoids endorsing Specter Republicans sure are taking this well Obama to Specter: "Thrilled to have you" Sen. Arlen Specter, Democrat Scalia on "foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood" Poll: Majority believes waterboarding is torture

Broadsheet Pro-choice Republicans: We'll leave, too! Domestic workers of the world unite! Judge: Women's studies isn't a religion Fry the bacon, slay the competition Forget swine flu! What about abortion? Keira Knightley's domestic violence ad too ... violent? A feminist's first 100 days Engaged and underaged

Glenn Greenwald Major defeat for Bush/Obama position on secrecy What Specter's switch says about him, the Democrats and our political spectrum Brian Ross spread the same falsehoods about the Khalid Sheik Mohammed interrogation

The last great swine flu epidemic "This virus will kill 1 million Americans," declared the U.S. in 1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today. By Patrick Di Justo

New evidence of a secret torture prison It has long been clear that the CIA used the Szymany military airbase in Poland for extraordinary renditions. Now there is new evidence of a secret torture prison nearby. By John Goetz and Britta Sandberg

The right floats off to Neverland. No girls allowed! In Texas and elsewhere, conservatives soothe the pain of electoral rout with dreams of secession -- and of magical nerd kingdoms. By Michael Lind

Those ignorant atheists In this witty book, Terry Eagleton argues that Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and their ilk are shockingly ill-informed about the Christian faith. By Andrew O'Hehir

My husband is too creative to work We're going bankrupt and losing our house because he refuses to take a job. By Cary Tennis

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